Snobbery, Racism, or Mutual Distaste: What Promotes and Hinders Cooperation in Local Public-Good Provision?
研究政治辖区是否与邻区合作提供公共教育，发现财产价值和规模经济是关键因素，但较穷辖区更愿与较富但种族多样性更高的辖区合并，传统俱乐部理论预测不成立。
A political jurisdiction may decide to cooperate in public schooling provision with its neighbors or remain independent. The determinants of the consolidation decision are compared for the richer and the poorer and for the whiter and the less white jurisdiction in each potential consolidation pair. Property values and scale economies matter most. However, poorer jurisdictions prefer merging with richer ones that are less white than themselves. Whiter jurisdictions prefer to consolidate with less white ones of similar income. Less white jurisdictions are more open to consolidation with whiter ones if their incomes differ in either direction. Traditional club-theory predictions are not supported. © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.